AMD EXPO ULL shows middling performance gains in initial tests despite eye-watering price increase — first benchmarks show up to a 4% improvement with DDR5-6000

The NeoX DDR5-6000 CL26 kit, for example, has jumped up $50 to $1,150 — yes, that’s for a 2 x 16 GB kit still — while the CL28 kit has jumped up to $1,030 (a $30 price increase). Two weeks ago, we saw non-ULL kits sellin…

AI servers will consume more power than all conventional data center hardware combined by 2027 — global data center electricity consumption set to grow by 26% t

Hyperscalers have moved in the same direction, with Meta having signed deals for more than 6GW of nuclear power to supply its upcoming data centers, and one firm repurposing retired U.S. Navy reactors for an AI site in T…

China alleges that Claude Code contains backdoors, calls mechanism ‘a serious threat’ — Gov’t claims Claude sends sensitive information to remote servers withou

It seems that this directive stems from the revelation by developer Troye Sivan that Claude Code is covertly sending information like time zone and domains, targeting Chinese users. Anthropic engineer Thariq Shihipar con…

SiPearl’s long-awaited Rhea CPU finally gets in the lab, opening the door for Europe’s first sovereign HPC CPU — ‘availability of Rhea1 is scheduled for end of

“Rhea1 is the unique European server CPU,” Prunty said. “We find that European sovereignty is exportable – customers not only in Europe, but also Middle East and Asia have expressed interest in our processor because it i…

New hack exploits AI hallucinations to trick agents into running malicious code — ‘HalluSquatting’ attack exploits a fundamental weakness in every available mod

The scientists are working on common LLM-backed programming applications, including Cursor, Windsurf, and OpenClaw, among others. In this scenario, the bots stand a better chance given they’re working with more context i…

Fi Ultra becomes first dog tracker powered by Starlink satellites – the Fi Ultra Dog Tracker makes Fido trackable via satellite, onboard GPS, and LTE connectivi

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Professor suspected AI-powered cheating on take-home midterms, makes finals in-person — only two students scored within 10% of their midterm score

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